Backlink update

[Dan Morgan]

For those interested and who still care looks like we have had a backlink update on G.

[michael_gersitz]

Yes. I saw it a couple hours back. My News site got over 2k backlinks. Has there been a SERP change. I noticed I am on the 4th page for "Wacky News". I am trying to get #1. Going to try and beat a PR7 site and a site with 2,500 backlinks.

I just noticed that I have have the words "wacky news" in the title, and in the anchor text on which people linked to me. I have poorly optimized this site. I must try and optimize it since it has been up for about 3 months now.

[Kyle]

Yes, there has DEFINITELY been a serp change.
The shopping section on my site is literally 3 to 4 times more traffic than it was yesterday. Truly, I'm so amazed and happy.

[Chris]

Ohh... been busy all day... lets see what DP has to tell me.

[Chris]

Well most of my sites lost listed backlinks. But I'm not seeing more SERP movement than usual on the terms I monitor.

[Dan Morgan]

Well most of my sites lost listed backlinks. But I'm not seeing more SERP movement than usual on the terms I monitor.

Ditto, just a change in backlink numbers (lost a few) for me.

[MarkB]

I had the changes I was expecting.

[chromate]

I'm not seeing any SERPs change apart from the normal shuffle either.

[moonshield]

to find backlinks in google it is 'link:site.com' right? Most sites I type in dont have any back links but I know for a fact they do. Whats up with that?

[moonshield]

sry... my bad I misunderstood what backlinks are...

[Emancipator]

indeedly.. there has been an update, I now have a nice chunk of backlinks i did not have before.. thanks for the heads up poorman :)

[Jaffro]

i'm seeing a few serps updates. nothing major but i didn't expect to see any particular changes tbh. backlinks also.

[r2d2]

A good few more for me for HBG, mostly from link exchanges with Mark and Incka.

[MarkB]

Cool! :) Glad it's showing up already.

[Emancipator]

backlinks is something ive needed to work on for quite awhile, google seems to have picked up on quite a few of them, i wil haev to check serps later on today.

[Dan Morgan]

Seems they have backtracked on it, or things are taking a while to settle down as I am back to my old figure.

[AndyH]

Some up, some down.

It makes no difference to me currently, though building backlinks (and therefore hopefully more PR) is always good for when I need it.

[Dan Morgan]

Apparently PR has been updated in the G directory - hope its not indicative...

[Emancipator]

yep, it is now reverted, backlinks are now showing what they were pre-update.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

Apparently PR has been updated in the G directory - hope its not indicative...

The directory has certainly changed, and not for the good (for me anyway) :(

[Emancipator]

this isnt uncommon, give it a couple days to settle, you know how google is.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

The directory doesn't change that often does it?

[Emancipator]

sorry i was referring to the google cache :P

[Shawn]

Major SERPs + allinanchor update tonight.

I'm showing major increases for all search terms that I've targetted.

[MarkB]

No changes on any of my sites as yet...

[Emancipator]

ive not noted if I have any changes yet, but will start looking. I notice I now have 57,000 pages in google which is much better then the 2,000 I had before.

[Chris]

I've not seen any significant changes.

[Emancipator]

im with chris, other then the amount of pages in google, ive not seen an huge jump yet.

[Percept]

Google is showing less backlinks for me :D

[chromate]

im with chris, other then the amount of pages in google, ive not seen an huge jump yet.

same here.

[Kyle]

My shopping traffic went from ~400 uniques a day to 1800 uniques on Saturday.
Sunday was then 1900, and Monday was 1900.

With rolling updates, Google indexes new content on Survive very quickly. This traffic jump is not because of the addition of new content. I really can't explain it.

[Shawn]

It took me exactly 6 months for me to start ranking for major terms that I've targetted.

Domain was registered April 12 -- homepage was indexed and in Google on April 18 -- I appear in the top 200 for a major term that I targetted on October 18, yesterday.

So, I was quick to jump to a conclusion of a SERP update -- it looks as if the site has simply reached the age where Google doesn't consider it new.

[Kyle]

From the time I put up the shopping section, it took 4 days to get indexed and get traffic. The traffic was 300-400 unique hits for exactly 6 days. The 6th day was this past Saturday, where it spiked to 1800 unique hits.

I guess what I'm getting at is, the fresh content boost did not apply here. It was actually the reverse.

My shopping section has only been online about 2 weeks.

[Emancipator]

google is still updating, i just broke 60,000 so this deep crawl isnt over :)

[Jaffro]

Yea i'm still seeing a lot of 'shuffling'. I do wonder whats going on as google hasn't appeared to do any major updates for a while and perhaps this shuffle is pre to a major update or change ish.

[Emancipator]

i think your on teh right track jaffro.

[James]

I only have about 437 backlinks to my site indexed in Google--though there should probably be more than that seeing as all my forums signatures have it in them and I make quite a few posts in forums.

[Dan Morgan]

Okay so its jumped again, this time good for all but one of the sites I am tracking.